Docks and harbors projects on schedule
Upland improvements associated with a 62-million dollar rebuild of the city’s cruise ship docks will begin along the downtown waterfront in late September 2012. In October of next year construction will begin on a redesign of Statter Harbor in Auke Bay.
Helo hearing: visibility of power line hazard markers questioned
New head of Coast Guard in Alaska apparently pushed for prosecution of Lieutenant Lance Leone for the crash of an H-60 helicopter in July 2010.
Article 32 hearing continues on chopper crash
Day two of a hearing gets underway on Thursday in Juneau for a Coast Guard officer facing charges related to a helicopter crash off the coast of Washington State last year.
ACMP initiative sponsors eager to collect signatures
The group behind a citizens’ initiative to re-establish an Alaska Coastal Management Program plans to have signature gatherers in every corner of the state.
‘Tis the season
Governor Sean Parnell and First Lady Sandy Parnell held the annual holiday open house at the Governor’s mansion Tuesday in Juneau.
ADOT awards contract for Juneau Access supplemental EIS
The Alaska Department of Transportation has selected HDR, Inc. to complete a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Juneau Access project.
Lemon Creek officials find contraband tobacco
Prison officials found two balloons filled with tobacco in a holding cell, and reported it to Alaska State Troopers.
Hunting, charter fishing violations filed against guide’s associates
Blake Coombs was a deckhand and Benjamin Olson allegedly shot a beaver while bear hunting with Michael Duby.
Juneau police investigate church graffiti
Juneau Police are investigating vandalism at the Aldersgate United Methodist Church in the Mendenhall Valley overnight.
Deal clears the way for NPR-A development
An agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service leaves just one formal step before the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska can open up to development.
